Quadrant Collection

Triumphant Cupid among Emblems of Art and War, 17th century. Creators: Thomas Willeboirts, Paul de Vos
Triumphant Cupid among Emblems of Art and War, 17th century

View of the Quadrant: the Main Door, the Square, the Church and the Loggia of the Monastery of the Monte della Vernia (Prospettiva dell'ingresso della prima porta, con la Piazza, Chiesa)

Astrology. Creator: Georg Pencz
Astrology

Men of Fort Story operate an azimuth instrument, to measure the angle... Fort Story, Va. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Men of Fort Story operate an azimuth instrument, to measure the angle of splash in sea-target practice, Fort Story, Va

Regent Street Looking Towards the Quadrant, plate eighteen from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Our Captain, Our Guide over Pathless Waters, 1890. Creator: BW Kilburn
Our Captain, Our Guide over Pathless Waters, 1890. Albumen silver print, stereocard

Regents Quadrant, 1880-1881. Creator: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Regents Quadrant, 1880-1881

College Henri IV (ou Lycee Napoleon), 1863-64. Creator: Charles Meryon
College Henri IV (ou Lycee Napoleon), 1863-64

Eight Bells, 1887. Creator: Winslow Homer
Eight Bells, 1887

Portrait of Jerome Lalande (1732-1807), c. 1800. Creator: Westermayr, Conrad (1765-1834)
Portrait of Jerome Lalande (1732-1807), c. 1800. Private Collection

The Quadrant, Looking South, 1927. Creator: Randolph Schwabe
The Quadrant, Looking South, 1927. From " Disappearing London", by E. Beresford Chancellor, edited by Geoffrey Holme. [" The Studio" Limited, London, 1927]

The Quadrant, Regent Street, 1822, (1920). Artist: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
The Quadrant, Regent Street, 1822, 1920. From Londoners Then and Now As Pictured By Their Contemporaries, edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1920]

Trinity College, Cambridge, 1910. Artist: William Matthison
Trinity College, Cambridge, 1910. From The British Isles in Pictures, by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. D.Lit. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1910]

The Geographer. Artist: Vermeer, Jan (Johannes) (1632-1675)
The Geographer. Found in the collection of Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main

Portrait of Jerome Lalande (1732-1807). Artist: Fragonard, Jean Honore (1732-1806)
Portrait of Jerome Lalande (1732-1807). Found in the collection of Petit Palais, Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

View of Regent Street looking towards the Quadrant with Hanover Chapel in the foreground, 1842. From Vintage London by John Betjeman. [William Collins, 1942]

The Temple from the Thames, c1650, (1903). From Social England, Volume IV, edited by H.D. Traill, D.C.L. and J. S. Mann, M.A. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903]

Telescope from Selenographia, 1647 (1956). Selenographia is a work by the German/Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687)

Crugers azimuth quadrant, 1673 (1956). Artist: A Steck
Crugers azimuth quadrant, 1673 (1956). Peter Cruger (1580-1639) was a German mathematician, astronomer and polymath. He taught the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius

The Geographer, 1668-1669. Artist: Vermeer, Jan (Johannes) (1632-1675)
The Geographer, 1668-1669. Found in the collection of the Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main

Measuring the distance from ship to shore, using a quadrant marked with shadow-scales, 1598. From L usa della squadra mobile by Ottavius Fabri. (Venice, 1598)

Title page of The Description and Use of the Sector by Edmund Gunter, 1636. It shows mariners holding various navigational instruments, including a sector and a cross-staff at the top

Surveying, from Levinus Hulsius Instrumentorum Mechanicorum, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1605. Artist: Levinus Hulsius
Surveying, from Levinus Hulsius Instrumentorum Mechanicorum, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1605. Top; measuring angles using a quadrant. Bottom; obtaining levels and altitudes using Hulsiuss planimeter

Surveyors using quadrants to measure the height of a tower, c1617-c1619. Artist: Robert Fludd
Surveyors using quadrants to measure the height of a tower, 1617-c1619. Quadrants fitted with plumb bobs and marked with shadow scales to measure the height of a tower

Surveying, early 17th century. Method of using a quadrant fitted with a plumb line and marked with shadow scales to measure the depth of a well. From Utriusque cosmi... historia by Robert Fludd

Surveying and timekeeping, 1551. On the left are various different kinds of sundial and a clock with a single arm. On the right a survey is being made of the height of the tower, using quadrants

Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian Munster. (Basel, 1551)

Johannes Hevelius, German astronomer, 1647. Known now by the latinized form of his name - Jan Hewel or Hewelcke - Hevelius (1611-1687)

Crucifixion on Great Runestone of Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark, c985, (20th century)
Crucifixion on Great Runestone of Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark at Jelling, c985, (20th century). At Jelling. Photo is of a cast, coloured as it was originally. National Museum, Copenhagen

Title page of Quadrans Apiani by German mathematician and astronomer Peter Apian, 1532. The illustration shows his recently invented quadrant

The Turkish astronomer Takiuddin at his observatory at Galata, Istanbul, 1581. Showing astronomical instruments in use at the time

Ptolemy, Alexandrian Greek astronomer and geographer, 1508. Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus) (c100-c170 AD), using a quadrant to observe the Moon and stars. Urania, Muse of Astronomy, instructs him

Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus c90-158), Alexandrian Greek astronomer and geographer. Ptolemy making observations using a quadrant

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